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oapen-20.500.12657-248572021-11-09T09:30:39Z Kafka and Wittgenstein Schuman, Rebecca Literature Kafka Wittgenstein In Kafka and Wittgenstein, Rebecca Schuman undertakes the first ever book-length scholarly examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language alongside Franz Kafka’s prose fiction. In groundbreaking readings, she argues that although many readers of Kafka are searching for what his texts mean, in this search we are sorely mistaken. Instead, the problems and illusions we portend to uncover, the important questions we attempt to answer—Is Josef K. guilty? If so, of what? What does Gregor Samsa’s transformed body mean? Is Land-Surveyor K. a real land surveyor?— themselves presuppose a bigger delusion: that such questions can be asked in the first place. Drawing deeply on the entire range of Wittgenstein’s writings, Schuman cannily sheds new light on the enigmatic Kafka. 2019-08-07 23:55 2020-03-12 03:00:32 2020-04-01T10:11:52Z 2020-04-01T10:11:52Z 2015-11-15 book 1005246 OCN: 1135855612 9780810131842;9780810131507 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/24857 eng application/pdf n/a 1005246.pdf Northwestern University Press 10.2307/j.ctv43vszx 102830 10.2307/j.ctv43vszx b4699693-8bd9-4982-b22e-c153becb6f4b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780810131842;9780810131507 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Evanston, Illinois 102830 KU Select 2018: HSS Backlist Books Knowledge Unlatched open access
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In Kafka and Wittgenstein, Rebecca Schuman undertakes the first ever book-length scholarly examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language alongside Franz Kafka’s prose fiction. In groundbreaking readings, she argues that although many readers of Kafka are searching for what his texts mean, in this search we are sorely mistaken. Instead, the problems and illusions we portend to uncover, the important questions we attempt to answer—Is Josef K. guilty? If so, of what? What does Gregor Samsa’s transformed body mean? Is Land-Surveyor K. a real land surveyor?— themselves presuppose a bigger delusion: that such questions can be asked in the first place. Drawing deeply on the entire range of Wittgenstein’s writings, Schuman cannily sheds new light on the enigmatic Kafka.
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